U-BOAT CAMPAIGN

Grey River Argus, 23 May 1942, Page 5

U-BOAT CAMPAIGN

Two More Sinkings

62 LIVES FEARED TO BE LOST.

WASHINGTON, May 21

A small Norwegian merchantman has been torpedoed and sunk off the Atlantic coast. The survivors have landed oni the east coast of America. The loss is possibly of sixty-two persons from a ship which has been torpedoed in the middle of the Atlantic. This was disclosed when a handful of survivors reached an East Canadian port. :

190 SHIPS'SUNK,

U.S. DEFENCE CRITICISED

(Rec. 9.20). WASHINGTON, May 21. Senator Brewster, addressing the Senate at Washington, criticised the American precautions against the U-boats. He disclosed that sq far there have been 190 ships sunk off the east coast and in the Mexican Gulf. ■ He said: “Scarcely any sinking uas occurred during the past year within four hundred miles from England. Those were responsible, who. had failed to provide essential equipment against the, submarine menace as successfully as did our British friends.”

SINKING OF MEXICAN TANKER

MEXICO CITY, May 21

The Mexican Foreign Office has announced that the Axis Nations have’ rejected Mexico’s protest Note and demand for complete satisfaction over 'the sinking of a Mexican tanker. , The announcement added: “Therefore, President Camacho will decide what steps the honour and dignity of the country demand.”

.ATLANTIC CROSSING).

99 PER CENT. SAFE.

(Rec. 11.20) HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, May 21 The Minister of the Navy, Mr. H. MacDonald told the Halifax Service Club that ninety-nine per cent, of the ships leaving North America tor Britain had arrived safely. Mr. MacDonald said the Canadian Navy personnel had increased twenty fold. WASHINGTON, May 21. ..

Mr. Emory Land, Chairman of the Maritime Commission, told the Commerce Committee investigating. the. use of inland waterways for the transport of petroleum: “You cannot cure the submarine menace, but you can ameliorate it. That fis* the history of the last-war, and that is going to be the history of this war." .